I recently
aired a program dealing with the fact that our governments meet their
budgets by making criminals out of honest people. In Redford Township,
Michigan the police department awards officers overtime and incentives
for meeting traffic violation quotas. The policy is to pay officers time-and-a-half
their hourly wages, according to the number of tickets written, and not
the actual hours worked. For every two tickets the officer writes, they
will get paid for one hour of overtime. Police are everywhere handing
out $140 traffic violations, but the program is �for the citizen�s safety.�

The
city of Springfield, Missouri shortened the yellow time of traffic lights
by one-half second and their RED LIGHT CAMERAS became much more PROFITABLE.
Lasercraft is the company that operates the system in Springfield and
they test the intersections to determine which ones should have the yellow
time shortened to make the intersection and the RED LIGHT CAMERAS more
PROFITABLE. The Texas Transportation institute found a one second reduction
in yellow time resulted in a 100% increase in the number of violations.

Saint
George, Missouri, a suburb of St. Louis, gets 28% of its budget through
traffic tickets.

I also
aired a segment of the program where a young man that had done nothing
wrong, was yelled at by a cop who said he could make up charges against
him if he didn�t cooperate. The cop was asking him personal questions,
which he had no right or reason to ask. The driver had a video camera
in his car and the entire episode was exposed to the news media.

After
airing this information, I received an e-mail from a listener who writes,
�If this does not chill people�s blood, they are not listening. The
typical response is, �this can�t happen here.� My response is �it is happening
here right now.� I have the privilege of having spent 30+ years in the
Merchant Marines. I am a Native American and the color of my skin has
reduced me to 3rd class status in any situation involving law enforcement.
I have been accused of being every kind of terrorist starting when the
Cubans were hijacking airplanes in the 70�s and from then on.

Outrage
at the harassment I have experienced led me to go to law school, where
I learned that there is no defense against this sort of things, short
of massive public refusal to participate. Perhaps I have brought some
of the problems on myself because I do not answer personal questions directed
to me by police officers, which are designed to let them pretend they
have �reasonable suspicion� to harass me further. I do not submit to searches
of myself or my vehicle without a warrant. This has led to a great deal
of additional harassment and I have been arrested on occasion.

This
is what people can expect if they refuse to participate in the effort
to make this into a fascist police state. Nevertheless, I believe it is
everyone�s obligation to stand by their Constitutional rights to be free
of unreasonable searches and seizures. If not � we will lose all our rights.
When the officer invents charges against you, follow up on that by going
to court. You do not need a lawyer because you will lose regardless. But
you will tie up their time. When you lose, appeal. I recently stated in
court, �If you like what happened at Waco and Ruby Ridge, let the police
continue to do what they have done to me. You will see a lot more of it.�

The
Judge objected strenuously to this and it was stricken from the record
without further discussion. I lost, but when I appealed the charges were
dropped.�

We have
always had good cops-bad cops, but we are no longer living in the good-ole-days,
and I put the blame on our ancestors. Not the ones who wrote the Declaration
of Independence, the Constitution and the Bill of Rights, and pledged
their lives, their fortunes and sacred honor. No, it was the following
generations that allowed this cancerous infection to eat away at our freedoms
in the first place. A patient doesn�t die because he has one or two cancer
cells. No one ever died from cancer in one day. To end a life the cell
must become malignant and reproduce itself until it can destroy vital
organs. So it is with a tyrannical government.

Our
Founding Fathers gave us a prescription that would prevent socialism,
communism, a dictatorship or any other form of government alien to our
Constitutional Republic. This malignant tumor we are fighting today began
with a pimple or a mole over 100 years ago. Our great-great grandparents
knew the Constitution. They knew the writings of our early patriots because
these things were taught in our schools. Yet, knowing their freedoms didn�t
mean they were willing to protect them. At that period of time they were
in a much better position to rebel than we are today. They should never
have accepted a marriage license, a driver�s license or a license for
their car. They didn�t license their horse and buggy, why should a car
be any different?

In 1913
on the eve of Christmas vacation, under the direction of President Woodrow
Wilson, a few hand picked members of Congress voted to allow the bankers
to take control of our money system. When Congress convened after the
holiday, the Federal Reserve Act should have been immediately repealed
and Congress should have impeached Wilson. Previous generations who knew
and understood our Constitutional form of government much better than
the general public does today, should have forced their representatives
to follow Constitutional Law. The attitude then and still is today, a
little here and a little there won�t hurt; this is still the greatest
nation in the world. It may be, but some day, some time this giant tumor
must be removed. It will be an expensive operation and the patient may
not survive.

I could
write pages concerning the freedoms we have lost, that could have been
saved if our grandparents would have rebelled. My mother was always �nipping
something in the bud.� Last April we had a hard freeze across much of
the nations� breadbasket. Fruit trees were blooming and setting buds.
The frost �nipped them in the bud� and there are no apples, peaches and
nuts on those trees today. These lost freedoms could have been �nipped
in the bud� just like that malignant tumor could have been stopped while
in the one cell stage. Since our ancestors didn�t take care of the problem,
we now have a much greater fight on our hands.

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Yes,
we can still fight, and we should, but it would have been a much easier
battle if our ancestors had �nipped it in the bud� before our government
became the monstrosity that it is today.

Derry Brownfield was born in 1932 and grew up
during the depression. He is a farmer and a broadcaster. Derry attended
the College of Agriculture at the University of Missouri where he received
his B.S. and M.S. degrees. He taught Vocational Agriculture several years
before going to work as a Marketing Specialist with the Missouri Department
of Agriculture. Derry served as Director of the Kansas City Livestock
Market Foundation at the Kansas City Stockyard prior to establishing himself
in farm broadcasting.

Derry started farming when he was 16 years old
and received the Future Farmers of America State Farmer degree in 1949.
Since that time the Brownfield Farm has grown to over 1000 acres maintaining
a herd of 200 registered Charolias cows.

In 1972, Derry and his partner established the
Brownfield Network which now serves 250 radio stations throughout the
Midwest with news and market information. In 1994, Derry started his own
syndicated radio talk show and he is one of the most popular radio talk
show hosts in America. The Derry Brownfield Show can be heard on approximately
80 radio stations in 23 states. With his entertaining sense of humor and
witty commentary he has captured audiences for over 30 years. His ability
to present an informative talk show while being light and colorful is
why he has a large loyal listening audience.

Derry Brownfield is a practical farmer, a practical
business man and a very entertaining speaker. He travels extensively throughout
the country speaking about his common-sense point of view.